Great Plains Studies, Center for

 

Date of this Version

2004

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Published in Great Plains Quarterly 24:4 (Fall 2004). Copyright © 2005 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

The remarkable descriptions of places and people produced by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado's expedition constitute the verbal baseline for measuring historical change in southwestern America. Those descriptions are most useful, however, when linked to modern locations. Many of the writers in this essential volume have set themselves to that task.

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